I'm Sorry... If We Are To Go Down This Syrian/ISIS Road To War... Reinstitute The Draft

[tazkcmo]

79. Me too.

My Dad had my two oldest brothers' bags packed and ready to haul 'em off to Canada. He didn't understand why we were even in Vietnam and while being a veteran himself he wasn't willing to let his sons kill the Vietnamese people who were willing to be killed for what they wanted.

"But putting the possibility out their, would pucker the butts of loose talking politicians"

I think you're right that just talking about it would dampen the rhetoric and more importantly in my opinion, it would wake up millions of mom's and dad's. Our service members are stressed from 15 years of war. We do not have a fighting force that is at a high degree of readiness and fitness in the numbers that will be required to do this battle. Don't fall for the usual small initial force like the current "advisors" being sent. Mission creep will be rapid and soon we'll have full scale escalation and that means bodies, not boots, in large numbers on the ground.

First we'll have call ups of recently separated veterans (We require 12 years of service. It can be active duty, reserve, Guard or inactive reserve but you're still GI for 12 years) and activation of reserve units. Again, these men and women are stressed from over use. We'll need more soon to replace the fallen and incapacitated. How gung ho will these conservatives be then? Not the D.C. crowd but our Freeper friends with sons and daughters and the evangelists that are too busy hating gay folks to notice that their kids are about to be thrown into a meat grinder. They'll wake up then. But it'll be too late then.

Hopefully, just a rumor of a draft will chill these war hawks down.